I first created this thread because I thought the main forum was becoming too cluttered, with too many similar threads. My thought was to try to consolidate similar themed threads, as it would hopefully create a more positive experience for all the forum members.
In my opinion there are still too many similar threads in the main forum. I don't want to be a dictator and I don't think any of the other moderators do either. Consider this: there's an "official post game thread" and yet there are still about 30 new threads created in the main forum in the last 12 hours.
I can understand the concept of letting democracy decide whether a thread lives or dies based on people commenting on that topic, but a side effect is that a lot of very good topics get pushed down to the bottom of the page and onto page two, where 99% of the time they will never be seen again. Another thing that happens when you have a large amount of threads - good or bad - the same topic tends to get restarted over and over, because that topic has been pushed down to page two and beyond. In my opinion that doesn't make for a good forum or a good user experience.
We've made longer threads with the weekly game preview thread and the weekly media predictions thread. That's helped to clear up a lot of the clutter and redundant threads; is the forum better or worse with one thread on those topics, or a new thread with every media prediction and every media preview?
If some of the topics that do end up here are of interest to anyone, is it really that hard to just hit "last page" and see what the latest column is that is being discussed?
I'm open to suggestions and I'm sure Ian and all the other moderators too. Nobody's trying to be a dictator; just trying to make the forum a better place to visit.
, maybe you see my point as to the difference.
